Artist Chiaki Harada(原田ちあき), made a special in-store appearance at Fickle Wish in Little Tokyo Los Angeles.

Chiaki Harada’s first Los Angeles appearance at Fickle Wish

Chiaki is a well known Japanese artist based off Osaka, Japan. She specializes in “Bad Mouth” art style and usually draws girls crying while saying terrible or depressing phrases such as:

From Hadara’s English translated artbook

From Hadara’s English translated artbook

From Hadara’s English translated artbook

These were the many items people were able to purchase at the event, alongside the first ever English translated Harada Chiaki artbook:

Bundle of Item I bought

Chiaki Harada merch: Mirror, Sticker, Artbook & tote bag

Autographed Chiaki Hadara art

An exclusive artbook, featuring Chiaki’s painting

“In wonderland” sticker by Chiaki

Chiaki Harada Tote bag

Chiaki Harada Mirror

Chiaki has done numerous artworks and collaborations, with the last one being in Osaka, japan, when she collaborated with Cosplay cafe, メルカフェ X Hadara Chiaki. She created this artwork for the collaboration:

Chiaki Also has her own manga out titled, “Chiaki Harada’s Suspicious Diary” which is available for purchase on her site or on Amazon.

Chiaki Harada’s Suspicious Diary (Cover)

The following are photos from the event:

Chiaki’s Info card

Me and Chiaki

Chiaki autographing her English translated artbook for fans

Q & A Panel with finalized live drawing

Me and Chiaki

Q & A Panel

Chiaki autographing her English translated artbook for fans

ありがとうございました、原田さん!

Me and Chiaki

Chiaki doing a LIVE drawing

Strike a pose!

Chiaki Harada Mirror

Chiaki Harada’s first Los Angeles appearence

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Creator duo Takeshi Obata & Tsugumi Ohba Are back with a manga series!

Platinum End

It has been reveled that the duo behind Death Note &Bakuman will launch a new manga titled Platinum End in the December issue of Shueisha‘s Jump SQ.This will be the duo’s 3rd manga creation and has since debuted in Japan on Nov. 4th.

The duo has had much success with their work, with the most popular being Death Note. Death Note, first released in December 2003, has been adapted into an anime series, 2 Anime movies, 2 novels, 3 live action movies and most recently, Musical that ran at Tokyo’s Nissay Theatre from April 6-29. Warner Bros is currently working on a screenplay for a live action version of Death Note.